DaveKCMO wrote:baby steps. maybe a year or so after it's running. so many other needs in greater downtown.
Agreed, if given $x thousand dollars there's so many places I would put bollards or paint curbs before putting a square foot of new pavement on Main.
People illegally park too close to corners because we don't mark no parking zones well. Marking in yellow and/or bollards across downtown would do wonders for pedestrian visibility
DaveKCMO wrote:here's an animated GIF of images i snapped today from the town pavilion honkey tube
Thanks Dave -- Had to give a shout-out to the origin story of the Honky Tube nomenclature. My middle brother was downtown in the early 1980s, and a street person referred to the original 'sky bridge' between the Commerce Tower and the garage to its north as a Honky Tube. When pressed, he explained that one only ever sees Honkies in these overhead tubes. (I think the Commerce Arcade bridge may have also been complete by then). Shortly thereafter in 1986, KC got several new Honky Tubes when Town Pavilion was completed -- one to Macy's and Commerce across Petticoat Lane and Main Street (briefly was a Dillard's and now demolished) and one to the Jones Store across 12th Street (connected building since demolished), with a tube extension across Walnut to the Jenkins Building garage (façade-ectomied).
prior to tom's death, he was made 'chairman emeritus' of the streetcar authority and was succeeded by mike hagedorn (president & CEO of UMB). attorney susan robertson (and mayoral appointee) is now vice chair.
very sad he didn't get to see the system running before he passed.
He did get to see rails placed in the street, and the TV coverage of the cars arriving, and being tested. He got to see new development projects along the line being announced, and developers citing the streetcar in their decision-making. So he died knowing that the time he put into the project paid off. I'm sure that gave him a lot of satisfaction in his last days.
FangKC wrote:He did get to see rails placed in the street, and the TV coverage of the cars arriving, and being tested. He got to see new development projects along the line being announced, and developers citing the streetcar in their decision-making. So he died knowing that the time he put into the project paid off. I'm sure that gave him a lot of satisfaction in his last days.
thanks. a good reminder of all we've accomplished.
